Hi, I have an application that uses the ALSA API, which opens the PulseAudio device for playback. One issue is that the playback is very choppy and distorted, if the X server is not running. Some Googling reveals that PulseAudio uses dbus, which needs X. Could that be the issue? When I'm running the Pi from the command line, I do see a pulseaudio process. Another issue is that when X is running, though the audio sounds fine, it's delayed by about a second (I'm capturing audio from a USB microphone). I've changed the "fragment" settings in /etc/pulse/daemon.conf to low values (this helped with lag for the same program on an x86_64 desktop). That change did not help. Any ideas? -- Paul
